Automobile buffer



June's, 1923. 1,457,330 A..W. WHARTON AUTOMOBILE BUFFER Filed Feb. 28, 1925 ATTORNEY.

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able material should be found, may be substituted for the rubber. andthe terni ri-1bber employed herein isintendedto' cornprehend not only rubber but `eqiiivalent`suitab'le nonrnetallie material; also' that yield-i I suitable material and constructionmaylie-employed.

Having thu's described my i'nvention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat'- l. Ina bufl'er for vehicles. the et'n'nbination vof levers for supporting a bui'l'er bar, nieaiis for p'ivotally supporting ,said levers intermediate their ends upon the tront or reai end"poition of -agvehiele s truetii're, the inner. 'portions oli'v the said levers being protheir upper ends. the said bolts being -adaptside vided with longitudinally extending slots, bolts extending through said slots, means for adjnsjtably supporting the said bolts at ed to be, adjusted in directions 'atright angles to the slots in said levers. and yielding resilient .means secured upon said bolts upon opposite sides ot' the, inner end portions 'of said levers. substantially as described.. A

2. In a buii'er for vehicles, the eon'ibination of levers pivot'ed intermediate their ends to 'the end portion o f the traine of a'veliicle in the iii-ner end portions of tbesaid levers, rubber sleeves upon said bolts above the in'- ner end portions rof the'said levers, adjustable nuts against which theiipper ends of said sleeves Contact, rubberl sleeves upon said'bolts'underneath the'inner end portions of said levers, and clamping nutsupon `the 'outer 'ends of the said bolts for clamping -the said sleeves aga-inst the said inner endl 'poi'tionsoi said levers, substantially as dej scribed." i 3. Ina butlfer for automobiles,`the combination ot' levers pivoted intermediate their ends tot the "front orrear ends of the side members 'ot' the chassis." the outer ends of said levers being adapted to support a buf* fer bar, and the. inwardly extending 'endsj thereoic hajring slots longitudinally extending n'ienibers otl the eliassis.'\v,l'iieli lugs are vsituatedfa distance .troni the-- ends vof said side ineinbers,y and the said'lugs being prof j-iidcdfivith slots therein ivliieh extend at right angles tol the lslotsl in the inner portionsiotsaid levers, vertical b olts the upper ends' of, which project through the slots in said lugs and aie adjustably secured therein, which bolts' extend'downwardlythrough vthe slots in the inner'endsof said levers, rub- -ber sleeves upon said bolts above the'inner j 70 inner ends, and means ei i dsof saidlevers, rubber sleeves on said bolts below the said vupon4 said bolts -foikelaniping the said sleeves 4against the opposite Sides 'of the inner ends Ofsaidievers.

In testimony that. lelaini the foregoing naine this th day ot" l `ebruary, 1922i.;

t ASTLEY W. WIIARTON.

therein?lugs projecting 'from the said 475 as niy invention, I have hereunto signed 'myA 

